Look carefully at this picture and you see that it is not a painting or drawing but a photograph. 
The Marvelous Floating Stage of the Bregenz Festival In Austria -
The festival has become renowned for its unconventional staging of shows.


Verdi' s opera "A Masked Ball" in 1999 featured a giant book being read by a skeleton.
From Skeptic Shahrukh Qureshi 's page.